LONDON — The Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena said on Wednesday that its board had approved a plan to sell new shares to raise as much as 2.5 billion euros, or about $3.1 billion, to satisfy demands that it bolster its capital cushion.Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest operating bank, emerged as the worst-capitalized in a review of 130 eurozone banks by the European Central Bank last month. Thirteen banks, including four in Italy and two in Greece, were shown to need more capital to prepare for future financial shocks.

Chi, which published topless pictures of Duchess of Cambridge, accused of sexism over images of minister Marianna Madia.One of Italy’s most popular gossip magazines has been accused of sexism after publishing photographs of a female government minister eating an ice cream with a lewd and sexually suggestive headline.Paparazzi pictures of Marianna Madia, a minister in Matteo Renzi’s cabinet, are featured in a spread in this week’s Chi magazine.They show Madia, 34, eating an ice-cream cone in the passenger seat of a car, with her husband sitting in the driving seat. “She knows how to do it with an ice cream,” read the headline used in the magazine, owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. It added that Madia was “allowing herself a … pleasurable break” with her husband.